ATHENS — A probe into a massive fraud involving hundreds of millions of EU farm funds in Greece is widening to include a former official from the ruling New Democracy Party of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
This new strand of the investigation follows a report in the in.gr website that Kalliopi Semertzidou, her partner and at least six other family members received €2.5 million in subsidies from OPEKEPE, the organization in charge of distributing EU farm funds in Greece, between 2019 and 2024.
Amid mounting pressure following the report, Semertzidou resigned from her post as coordinator of EU funds and women’s entrepreneurship in the New Democracy Party.
She called the allegations “a targeted and slanderous attack with false claims” and also insisted in her resignation letter that her activities were “transparent and legal.”
